SASL and encrypted connection?

Hi,
I compiled OpenLDAP 2.0.7 with SASL and OpenSSL but without Kerberos support
and after some troubles I got the whole beast running (the documentation is
somehow sparse)... I haven't configured any SSL certificates yet.
I managed LDAP searches with simple and SASL (Digest MD5) authentication and
everything seems to work as expected. However whatching the communication
with a network sniffer, the whole communication during and after the simple
bind is clear text (as expected) and the whole communitcation with the
SASL-bind semms to be encrypted or obscured. I expected an encryped bind
commuitcation but what is happening with the search request itself. Is this
behaviour configurable?
Yours,
Stephan
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